The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-20 00:00:00

EXCHEQUER COURT-(THIS DAY.) WILSON Y. HALL. Mr. Seargeant ATCIIERLEY moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict, which was for the plaintiff, for 1,4381. should not be set aside, and a new trial had, on the ground of misdi rection by the Learned Judge, Mr. Justice Pattison. The action was brought to recover the above sum, which was paid as the price of 100 shares in the Northern and Central Bank. It appeared that the plaintiff met a Mr. Scott, who was an agent for the Bank, and said he was anxious to have some in terest in the Bank. The shares were then at 51. premium in the market, but he did not wish to give so much. Mr. Scott after some negotiation, wrote to the plaintiff that he was then prepared to offer the 100 shares at a premium of 41., which the plaintiff accepted, and remitted the money. The corn- Pany did not rat if y t h e bargain, and insisted upon having the full premium of five pounds per share, and they refused at all times t o give the plaintiff the scrip, or any do cument upon whi c h h e could receive his dividends. He never did receive any dividends, though he often applied for them, a nd when the Bank got into difficulties he brought his ac tion for money lo ad and received. The Learned Sergeant contended that the action could not lay, inasmuch as the shares har.l been allotted to the plaintiff, and, in point of fact, : he had 'become shareholder, and had consid e red himself so by Ire,qu''ntly calling for hi s di v id en d s . H e was not th en t o b e ,a , uotAred to put an end to the contract, b ecaus e the Company tad become insolvent. He complained that the Learned - Judge had left it to the Jury to say whether the contract had ever been completed. The C ourt were of opinion that both the Judge and Jury tad acted p er f ectly right The contract had been repud i ated onthe c ompany _ they had never given the plaintiff any scrip any document—neither had he ever been paid any dividends, Or i n any othe r way treate d as a s h are h o ld er . Ho h a d, there fore, a p l'P erfect ri g ht t o r e cove r the money which he had paid on tb,e contract, which had never been completed.—Rule refused. RAILROAD MANIA ABROAD. Accounts received from Vienna this morning state that a Umber of accidents had occurred there in consequence of the Penin g Of the subscriptions for the Railroad from Vienna to —44 °. Th e au th or iti es not deeming the office large enough to cont ain the subscribers, P r i nce Schuzemberg gave them 7 . P l ace in his Palace. Th e crow d was so great—computed at east at thirty thousand persons—and so eager to obtain ad mission, that they forced the gates, when the rush was so great that a number of persons had their legs broken, and the blood was flowing in all directions. The efforts of a whole vbattalion of grenadiers, with a detachment of light cavalry, ' t „ 42 not sufficient to disperse the crowd. Several of the mill . - were also w oun d e d. Th e pl ace was immediately turned int o a share r ailroad at 10 per c market, and bargains were done in the above ent. premium. BOW-STREET.--(THIS - DAY.) Rdanzes Larman described as a shoemaker, Fras .f?und in u.ssel-eourt, last night, by a constable of the division, of erlng: a book for sale, entitled a " Treatise on Leases," and en being asked by the Magistrate who he was, and to ow he Irle Possessed of the book, he declined giving any account of , s elf, as his friends were respectable, but frankly acknow f'ge that he stole the book from a shop in Chancery-lane, a ordln'nutea previous to his being taken into custody. He was r dered to be remanded for a week. S 'T• MARTIN'S IN THE' FIELDS. ~To ; Ve stry meeting was held to-day, at th e V es t r y-R oom. of fobore parish, for the purpose of taking into coneratio r proceedings connected with the late overseers' accounts; P of deciding whether the parishioners were or were not capable of mana.ing the affairs of the parish with out fo re i gn interference, and other parochial affairs. T he meeting was fully attended, and after a discus -31011 of about an hour the subject was adjourned for six months, and the meeting separated. LI VERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—APRIL 19. The principal business done in railway stock to-day is con fined to Brighton, Eastern Counties, Great Western, North Midland, New Southampton, and London and Birmingham. There was little done in any other stock. The sales effected today were at the following quotations:— Brighton 23 prem. Eastern Counties . Great Western 3oi. prem. Southampton 2 2 4a prem. North Midl an d -- prem. London and Birmingham The market closed very firm,buyers, and had a healthy ap pearance. The various new schemes meet no encouragement here, 4:11 the business being confined to good railway lines. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of all descriptions of Grain this week are moderate, and of Flour the return is small. There is not much doing in the Wheat trade, but Monday's terms are maintained. Barley, Beans, and Pease remain as last reported. The Oat trade has been dull today at the terms last quoted. Flour still continues to meet a slack trade at former rates. The attendance of buyers was thin this morning, as the weather very disagreeable. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley: Oats. Flnur 1 ?Ir01) r 'Rh ................ .. .. ...... = = gn .. I -- SMITHFIELD.. At quotations looking upw ar d s th ere was a cons id era bl e b us i ness 11 " e; and the supply was equal to the demand. Beasts) 628; Sheep, 35 6 . 9 ,33 63. to 4s. 6d. ; Mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Sd. ; Veal, 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. ; l'ork, 4s. to Ss. Good fish scarce ~, FISH MARKET. latter cheap. , ' common fish plentiful ; the former rather dear, the COd good up as high as 12s and down as low as Is. 6d. ~ for common.; Turbot 4s• and 5s .up to 21s. ; Soles Pd. to 3s. 6d, per pair; Irish Sal mon, 64. .. per lb. Per lb.; good English Salmon Is. 6d. to 2s. No PROVISION MARKET. Rareral variation in Prices f rom this day wee k i n an y kind. Business Butter ly dull and stocks not heavy. Most business done in Dutch HOP AND SEED MARKET. ".r1 C. lo . ver Seed dull at the late d ec li ne . But l i ttle passing in other de. ` dull of S ee d s, and prices unvaried. Hops are very steady at pre. 'Pious quotations. P Y.C. to TALLOW MARKET. -- "-ay 495. Gd, on the spot, and 455. for delivery. It is . COLONIAL MARKETS. Vtida, wh ic .5 h ti is me since we had such a dearth of public business on a one of the principal days in this market, as there was Coco a, NI N° Public Sales of any nd of Sugar, Coffee, Spices, Rice, into a °luses or Cotton. Business has contracted itself by degrees ato v r rY narrow compass indeed ; and so far from there being cuy er , s in the market, there are literally no bona fide atoonvet'°' c onsumption, and now actual want can be supplied is u ft : - ' t hese Parties by the meagre sales in the market and :ccountable. British Plantation Sugar sells very slowly indeed; 450 i l P hri t° the Present time we are writing we do not think that above th an th s "' h ave been sold during the week. It must be quoted Is lower •34 ;,,firrid ay. I G O ,A d aY Week or at least since yesterday week, last Friday being Brow ' n:s4s Gdlow yellow to good 56s 6d to 60s Zn e c e GI 6d to 64s Gd ; Barbadoes 56s to 65s ; Refined unvaried ; 3 5s 6d Lumps to pass the standard 76s 6d to 77s 6d ; Peet!ritui:t,ed Sugar must be quoted Is 6d lower than it was this day t ei, k ; Brown 535 to 54 ; low to fine Yellow 55s 6d to 64s 6d ; . gal bOlight _"" xl , annah Sugar have been saved a decline, by being in i t. Coffee is unaltered in price, because nothing has been done th ey h_ rt . ice has sold at previous rates. Spices must have got lower, if tent , ar: not been bought in. The imports have been .o t f o o a o s d l s e . nde L r a e rg x e . tale,'_ n d during the week, there have been buyings in not be effected, the market being weak. For next g week there " 4 ; little business advertised at present. TEA SALE. ~ T he atte n dance to-day was slender, compared with what it has been. little of the quantity put up sells. Prices unvaried. The sale is Cted to conclude about the middle of next week. r INDIGO SALE—THIS DAY. ttouhgeh attendance te_day was not so numerous as yesterday ; and al h Prices were not lower than our quotations of yesterday, the sale action Rarer, No parti cu l ar ki nd h a d any prominence in to.day s trans_ th e • Not y et near half the sale is over. Since writing the above, Lat)orters l ower th an yeste r are meeting the market ; more is selling, and p rices rather day. „ LIVERPO OL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 19 . u ur Cotton M arket still remains in an extremely depresse d s t a t e a s 117ards t he demand, and no doubt prices would be mu ch lower, was it v 1• fo r the prudent conduct of holders, who are not pressing their stocks 1 „ the m ur , " r ket• The sales amount to 2,000 bales, which ha ve realised 74 a ”, quotations. 15 Egyptian, 12i • 100 Pernam, 9 ;80 Bahia, ▪ ; 1 ,445 A mer i can, 5i 7 1 } ; 350 Su ' rat, 34 4—Total, 2,000.. I Vhe a t - LEEDS — CORN MARKET. —April 17 1 6, • ~.......... , No rfolk and Sliffhlk 601 b. 1 .! . 1 1 : 1 . 2 s Norfolk and Siltrolk ~............ Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 245. to 255. :1 ...ealls Grinding 325. to 41s. gate :: .......................... 631 b --- ' r"at " ...................... Nttli--":,iiinl%gle.a.lig, For. ll ' d ................. 2:s. to Us. per load. . - t . 0 . 11M . ....... Eng. 10 1 ,4 d. to 11Nid. per stone. s'---112..Ze.t.L,"in" WI .. ..... : . : 17 . .. t . ,; .... ... Foreign. 1141 to 23/. per last.. 'WHEAT. VV.ERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—ApriI 17. .............. r.......25_12.12, White, per 701 b. ........_____ Red ................. R;catch, Welch, and 11. a nx 1,.......... It h , White ' ' 3 4 8 9 1 - -.........Z 5 " - ---, ed Ivo eorei ...........; E l :l . ll, , lish, gn Welah, and Scotch, per 4511). ....... "---..... p c .;. ,. %. r: ................................ ... ZI AIMIC" ei gn 0 0 0 0 kn oV iah, mquarter per I 32 0 30 0 _ . oeotel s and Irish, Per Milk - .lll 4 0 4 8 36 4 0 lg., Feeding 44 0 ....^t4; English, per Imperi.il quarter 4O 0 0 35 0 37 ----- Irish, Bre. !id 0 43 q "------- Foreign Pt 40 0 42 0 ,_ "Rs English, per Imperial quarter 3 , 4 t 41 7,----- Foreign '''Oun. English, per 2eol* 0..........,_ Irish . , 44 0 50 0 t9wEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 25 6 23 3 ,2±10.1 Coßx, per 4401 b • `5O 8 25 0 ,'.YE. per 'roper:al quarter ",ALT, per Imparial quarter whtlat. o l a ril t : . ORT OF GRAIN Flour. Oatmeal fur the Week ending April 16. 4 C L: _Qrs. I B Qrs. Foreign, Brls. I Irish,lkc. Scks.l Load, ' 4 5 87 258 50 1 9,219 14,248 tlts Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex is ex ilcted to retur n to Kensington Palace on Tuesday next, from ewatead Abbey, the seat of Colonel Wildman, the Noble ,-,,,llke's Equerry, early in the present month. His Royal ; 1 1 1 .1 gliness will give o. prepay banquet to his illustrious niece, o ,Queen, for which ations have already commenced. s 1 NVO HUMAN SKELETONS.—The West Mendip wh?unds lately ran a fox to the earth in Cheddar Cliffs, from _hence he was dug out ; and, in the progress of removing tho earth, two human skeletons were found. This is the The extraordi nary, as it was full forty feet above the road. !be skulls are in the possession of Mr. Marshall, at the Bath Arrni, Cheddar. --Bristol Gazette. EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE OF OPI NION IN THE CORPORATION OF LONDON. The following statement of the substance of the proposi tions for the Reform of the Municipal Institutions of the city of London, submitted to the Court of Common Council by the Committee of the whole Court, and of the resolutions to which the Court itself agreed upon the subject, will show what alteration the opinion of the body has undergone since the Mayoralty of Alderman Copeland. The facts have caused great surprise. REFORM PROPOSED BY THE COMMITTEE. The Committee of the whole Court resolved that the con stituency of the city should be of one uniform description, that the boundaries of the several wards of the city should be altered, in order to make :the wards more equal ; that the wards should be made more equal as to the number of in habitants and the amount of rateable property in each ; that the number of wards in the city should be twenty-five ; that the time for holding elections should be consolidated, and that there should be in the year two days for nomina tion and one day for election, namely, one day for the no mination of persons to be chosen in an assembly of all the constituency in Common Hall, and one other day for the nomination of persons to be chosen in the respective ward motes, the former to take place a few days before the latter ; and that in the event of a poll being demanded on either the Common-hall or Wardmote elections, the poll should be taken on the day following the wardmote nomination in the several wardmotes of the several elections within each ward ; that the Mayor should be chosen from those Aldermen who have served the office of Sheriff; that the election of Mayor by the Com mon-hall should be absolute, without any veto ; that the Al dermen should be elected in the several wardmotes from the general constituency of the City ; that the election of Alder.. men by the wards should be without any veto ; that the Alder men should not be Justices : , until they have served the office of Sheriff; that the Aldermen should be elected periodi cally ; that the period for the election of Aldermen should be once in every seven years ; that no person should be .eligible for or continue in the office of Alderman who has been con victed of fraud by a Jury, and that any Alderman who shall during his tenure of office become bankrupt or insolvent, or compound with his creditors, and in any such case shall not pay twenty shillings in the pound, shall be thereupon removed from his office, but not disqualified from re-election; that no person should be eligible for or continue in the office of Com mon Councilman who has been convicted of fraud by a Jury, and that any Common Councilman who shall during his tenure of office become bankrupt or insolvent, or compound with his creditors, and in any such case shall not pay twenty shillings in the pound, shall be thereupon removed from his office, but not disqualified from re-election ; that the Court of Mayor and Aldermen be continued as a separate Court; but that for the future the whole of the City's cash should be under the controul and expended only by the authority of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons in Common Council as sembled ; that the controul of the police and nightly watch of the City should be vested in the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons in Common Council assembled; that all officers at present appointed, or admitted by the Lord Mayor, or by the Court of Aldermen, should in future be appointed and admitted to their respective offices by the Court of Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons in Common Council assembled, or by any Committee or Committees to whom they may delegate such appointments ; that the Commis sioners of Sewers, &c., the Corporation of the Irish Society, and all other Commissions or Committees appointed by or under Acts of Parliament or otherwise, and emanating from the Court of Common Council, should be under the direct con troul of, and amenable to, that body; and that, if it shall be deemed necessary to the proper administration of the affairs of the Corporation, that the Members of the various Committees should receive any remuneration for their services, the annual sum to be appropriated for such remuneration should in no case exceed 3001. to any one Committee. REFORM ADOPTED BY THE COURT. The Court expunged the resolutions that the constituency should be of one uniform description, and that the wards should be equalized ; but agreed that the Lord Mayor, Alder men, and Commons should have the power to make any ne cessary alterations, and that with respect to the times for holding elections there should be one day for nomination and one day for election; and that in the event of a poll being demanded, the poll should be taken and concluded on the day . following the day o f nom i nat i on. Th ey a l so agree d t h at it is indispen sa bl e for the due administration of justice that the aldermen be elected for life, and be and continue justices of the peace, subject to removal on bankruptcy, insolvency, by deed of composition, or taking the benefit of the Insolvent Act, conviction of fraud, or other misdemeanour, by the ver dict of a Jury, and neglect of duty for six months. That the Court of Mayor and Aldermen should be continued as a sepa rate Court, and although for the future the whole of the city's cash should be under the controul and expended by the au thority of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in Common Council assembled, yet the said Court of Mayor and Aldermen should have a power and controul over the City's cash for all purposes connected with the administration of justice, police, gaols, and the usual expenses of the con servancy of the river Thames. That the Act of the 11th George 1., cap. 18, for regulating elections within the city, should be repealed, except such part as relates to the passing of the property of freemen on their decease, made the custom of London; and that, subject to the alterations before sug gested, all existing rights and privileges consistent with the principles declared by the Court, should be preserved. All the prominent resolutions of the Committee which were at all at variance with those to which the Court agreed, were either negatived or expunged, so that the labours of the Committee, immense as they were, have been completely useless. Sonic propositions relative to matters of minor im portance' connected with the Mayor's Cour, were referred to a Committee, and the following resolutions proposed by them in Committee were adopted unanimously :—" That by two several charters in Parliament of the nth Edward 111, and 7th Richard 11., it is granted and confirmed to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of London, that if any customs of the City shall be harsh or defective, or any new emergencies arising thereon shall need amendment, for which no remedy had been before provided, the Mayo:, Aldermen, and Commonalty may, as often as it shall seem to them expedient, ordain and provide a remedy, according to good faith and consonant to reason, for the common advan tage of the citizens and the people resorting thither, provided that such ordinances be useful to the King and his people, agreeable to good faith, and consonant to reason as aforesaid: that such regulative power was, with all the other rights and privileges of the citizens of London, confirmed by the statute of the 2d of William and Mary, passed on the completion of the revolution of 1638; that it has been constantly exercised, and forms the foundation of many of the most useful and important ordinances made by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, from the earliest possession of the power to the present time, and that it has been established by various deci sions of the Courts of Law during the same period ; that this legislative power of remedying defects in the civic constitu tion is essential to the maintenance of the ancient rights and privileges of the citizens, and their adaptation to altered times and circumstances, and should therefore be preserved unimpaired, notwithstanding any changes which may be deemed necessary, in other respects, in the corporate institutions of this city." The plan of municipal reform thus agreed to by the Corpo ration will, we understand, be shortly be submitted to the Go vernment. ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORI- CULTURAL* SOCIETY. The Spring exhibition of this Society, of which her Ma jesty has lately become patroness, was held yesterday, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington. The rooms were well attended with visitors during the day, and the collection of specimens was more than usually interesting. The most prominent plants were a fine specimen of papyrus from Mr. Christy, of Clapham, several cacti and mimosas, with extensive collections of hyacinths, heartsease, daphnes, berberis, verbenas, &c. The fruit consisted of several varieties of apples and pears in good condition, and strawberries ; and the collection of vegetables consisted of new potatoes, French beans, cucumbers, asparagus, &c. Amongst the visitors were Earl Stanhope, the President of the Society, and family, with several other distinguished individuals. The following is a list of the awards : CLASS THE FIRST.—AMATEURS.—Best pair of auriculas, large silver medal, Mr. Nayler ; second best pair of auriculas, middle silver medal, Mr. Chapman. CLASS THE SECOND.—GENTLEMEN'S GARDENERS.—Best pair of auriculas, large silver medal, Mr. T. G. Lutman ; second best ditto, middle Silver medal, Mr. Harding ; best collection of miscellaneous plants, large silver medal, Mr. Sadler ; second best ditto, middle silver medal, Mr. Atlee ; best collection of ericas, ditto, Mr. Conway. AMATEURS AND GENTLEMEN'S GARDENERS.—Best 24 va rieties of heartsease, middle silver medal, Mr. Lidgard. CLASS THE THIRD.—NURSERYMEN.—Bcst pair of auri culas, large silver medal, Mr. Hill; second best ditto, middle silver medal, Mr. Dickson ; best collection of miscellaneous plants, large silver medal, Mr. Fairbairn ; second best ditto, middle silver medal, Mr. Rogers; best collection of cricas, ditto, Mr. Fairbairn ; best 20 varieties of heartsease, ditto, Mr. Rogers. OPEN TO ALL CLASSES. —Best 12 auriculas in pots, middle silver medal, Mr. Hill ; best seedling auricula, ditto, Mr. Dickson; best polyanthus, ditto, Mr. Harding; best seedling ditto, small silver medal, Mr. Barnard ; best 12 hyacinths in pots, middle silver medal, Mr. Macarthey ; second best ditto, small silver medal, Mr. Naylor; best six camellias in pots, large silver medal, Mr. Lake; best specimen camellia, middle silver medal, Mr. Lake; best specimen plant, large silver medal, Mrs. Powers; second best ditto, middle silver medal, Mr. Coutts ; third ditto, small silver medal, Mr. Dickson ; best fruits grown in England, middle silver medal, Mr. Sadler ; best vegetables ditto, ditto, Mr. Conway. MISCELLANEOUS PLANTS. —EXTRA PRlZES.—Cactus, Messrs. Bright; specimen camellia, J. Allnutt, Esq. ; specimen plants, Messrs. Atlee, Coutts, end Dawson ; cut flowers, Mr. Sadler. A prize for the best British herbarium, as also of exotic cultivated specimens, given by Mr. W. Christy, junior, to Mr. T. Banks. Several important statutes have recently been passed, respecting the expenses and conduct of the Oxford students, in order that they may with better success apply themselves to their studies, and be saved from extravagance. No one, until he is of four years' standing, is to be allowed to keep a horse or servant, without permission, to be applied for formally by petition. No student is to be allowed, under any pretext, to keep a dog or dogs, or to be present at, or engaged in, horse racing, prize-fighting, duelling, pigeon or rifle shooting, &c., on pain of rustication or exclusion ; nor are vehicles to be hired or used without a licence from the proctors. There are also other regulations, with decrees against townsmen detected in aiding the scholars to break these statutes. N EGRO EMANCIPATION. GREAT MEETING at BIRMINGHAM LAST NIGHT. (BY EXPRESS). Yesterday evening one of the largest and most important meetings ever held in the Town Hall of Birmingham took place, for the purpose of taking into consideration th e pro priety of petitioning Parliament for the IMMEDIATE, EN TIRE, and UNQUALIFIED ABOLITION of the system o f N egro Apprenticeship in the British Colonies, and of adopting such other measures as might !end to the att a i nment o f that important end. The requisition for convening the meeting was signed in the short space of twenty-four hours by upwards of two hundred of the most respectable inha bitants of the town and neighbourhood, including magis trates, bankers, merchants, and manufacturers, an d com prising men of all sects and parties in politics and religim. At an, early hour of the evening the Hall began to fill, and before the time fixed for taking the chair, th e b o d y of the building and side and front galleries, which were re served for ladies and others, to which admission was ob tained by tickets, presented a densely crowded and highly interesting appearance. About six o'clock the High Bailiff, WILLIAM SCHOLE FIELD, Esq., son of one of the Members for the Borough, entered the organ gallery, accompanied by several Clergy men of the Established Church, Dissenting Ministers, and other gentlemen of the highest respectability. The HIGH BAILIFF , on taking the chair, said very few words were necessary for him to utter in introdu c i ng t hi s subject to their notice. The principles of slavery were, thank God, no longer subjects of debate a mongst them. The unanimous voice of the country had determined that Slavery, in principle, was cruel, odious, and unjust, and it was for that meeting to decide whether that which was unjust and odious , and cruel in principle , could in practice be . wise or benevolent.—(Loud cheers.) He would not trespass upon their attention, as there were many gentlemen present to address them, but merely call upon the Secre tary to read the letters which he understood had been re ceived from many who were unable to attend. Before he did so he would refer to the absence of two gentlemen who would have felt pleasure in being present this evening, if it had been in their power, to co-operate with those around him—he alluded to Mr. Attwood and his own father. Both were unavoidably absent this evening, but he was sure he might say on the part of each, that they had - their best wishes and exertions in support of the benevolent object in view. --(Cheers.) Mr. Was. MonuAN, the Secretary, here read letters of apology from a number of gentlemen who had been invited letters m e o t p e r r o s ot e were the ai‘o o di b b . j pef e rr. c t:o t \rnp o i f rig. SirotlhtvtEe m Pigott, Esq. Winning ton, to attend, expressing their regret at u navo id a bl e a b sence , and W their Amongst sincere others, desire 11:I f . o P r ., E N a V s . t S w . yo D re u e g s d t a e l r e s , h E ire sq , M.P. for Bridgenortb, Sir Thomas Winnington, of Bewd ley, Mr. Villiers, M.P. for Wolverhampton, and other gentlemen. ABEL PEYTON, Esq., Low Bailiff, then came forward to move the first resolution. He said he cheerfully complied with the wishes of the Committee in rising upon the pre sent occasion, and would endeavour briefly to state to them the resolution he had to propose, and the reasons why it met with his hearty and ready concurrence. He begged, however, in the first instance, to refer to some observations made by Lord Stanley, when he introduced his measure into Parliament. Upon that occasion he said he proposed to put the slaves in possession of all the privileges of free men, and that the only restriction he should impose was, that they should continue to labour a certain time under their presenet employers ; that they should not be subjected to corporeal punishment ; and that those nearest and dearest to them should not be insulted and rendered liable to the degradations which they then endured. These were the sentiments and propositions with which Lord Stanley in troduced his Bill for the emancipation of the negro into Parliament—it was to those propositions the - eoloniel slave holders consented—it was on the distinct pledge that those propositions would be carried out by the Colonial Legisla ture that the British people consented to give twenty millions of money, instead of the originally proposed loan of fifteen millions ; he might be allowed, perhaps, to show, in re ference to another document which he held in his hand, and which was a summary of punishments inflicted on the ap prenticed labourers in the British Colonies, which would exhibit the spirit in which the propositions of Lord Stanley had been carried out, and what was the present state of the slave population in their Colonies. This document was compiled from Parliamentary returns from 17 Colonies from nine to twenty-two months, by which it appeared that nearly 140,000 punishments had been inflicted, equal to about one-fourth part of the whole slave population, includ ing about 29,000 who had been punished by flogging, and 104,000 by mulcts of time—by imprisonment with hard labour—by working in chains—by the tread-mill—by the stocks—by solitary confinement in dark cells—anti by fines end extra labour on estates.—(Loud cries of " Shame.") He should not particularize further, hut merely repeat, that this statement was compiled from Parliamentary Re turns, and might be considered authentic, from which they might see how far they ought to be satisfied with what they had got for the immense sacrifice which had been made by the British people. He would not occupy their tim e further than by reading the resolution which he had to submit for their approval, and which was to the following effect : " 1. That this meeting consider the nation bound to perse vere in its efforts for the instant extinction of the present cruel system of apprenticeship in the 'West Indies ; the more so as they cannot contemplate, without the most serious ap prehensions, the approaching period when a numerous class who have looked for the enjoyment of freedom, will find them selves deprived of it, in consequence of fraudulent registration, and when the vast majority of the negroes who are registered as prmdials, contrasting their situation with that of their more fortunate brethren, may be unable any longer patiently to en. dure their wrongs. And this meeting will promote, by all constitutional means, the Bill of Lord Brougham, and the motion of which Sir Eardley Wilmot has given notice in Par liament." The Rev. Mr. MARSH in seconding the resolution, ob served that the want of physical strength had prevented his being present on a late occasion when the cause of Tem perance had been pleaded in that hall. He (Mr. Marsh) was the friend of that cause, because he was the friend of the mind, the friend of the body, and the friend of the estate of the children of men.—( Hear, hear.) For the same reason, although with very little more physical strength, he had met his friends this evening, because the Anti. slavery Society was the friend of the mind, the friend of the body, and the friend of hundreds of thousands of their fel low men, of their fellow Christians, and their fellow citizens. ( Hear, and cheers.) He therefore thought they were assembled that night to promote a just and righteous cause. It might, indeed, be asked why he as a minis ter of religion had come forward to move or second a resolution at a meeting which related only to civil liberty ? His answer was that, as a minister of peace and religion, he had a right to plead the cause of civil liberty—(Loud cheers) —that he had a right to appeal to Ciasar when his fellow citizens and fellow Christians were unrighteously oppressed.—(Cheers.) But he maintained that, on the present occasion, he was not merely pleading the cause of civil liberty, but also that of religious liberty—. ( Hear)—for, if they made a man a slave, and treated him as such, and, as an irresponsible being, they lowered him to the state of a brute—when they had done that, and de prived him of his civil liberty, he was sure to be de prived of his religious liberty also.—(Hear, and cheers.) He would appeal to the history of their West India Colo nies; in confirmation of the truth of that remark, for reli gious liberty was altogether unknown in the West Indies. --(Hear, hear.) Had he (Mr. Marsh) been cross-ques tioned on the subject, and that a reference had been made to the state of Lord Chatham, who was brought in a dying state into the House of Lords, he would have claimed per mission to cross-question the other party.—( Hear.) If lie had been asked, " Do you know with whom you associate? —have you forgotten the old adage,tell me your company, and I'll tell yon what you are?"—he (Mr. Marsh) could answer that he was associated with the respectable and in fluential requisition by which the present meeting had been convened—(Cheers)—that he: was associated with that honourable list of names who were the lovers of liberty and the advocates of civil and religious freedom all over the world.—(Cheers.) But supposing for a moment that he differed from all the members o f th e A n ti-Sl aver y Society on the subject of politics or religion—what then ?--(Hear , hear, hear.) Was he not to unite with them, for instance, in erecting hospitals for the diseased ?--was he not to unite with them in providing a pl ace o f re f uge f or the dis tressed ?—was he not to unite with them in any benevo lent acts for the relief ofthe wants of the poor—and was he not to unite with them in the cause of justice, the cause of mercy, the cause of religion, and the cause, he added, of God?—(Great cheering.) Justice ! Oh, he heard the Barrister on the other side asking, where was the justice of breaking a covenant made with the possessors of property in the West Indies ? That question, he would say, had better not be put, for he wou ld as k i n return , w h o was it that had broken the covenant ?—the people who had given twenty millions of money for the purpose of protect ing their fellow-men from the cruelty and injustice with which they had been treated—or those who had broken the covenant after the money had been paid to them, under the name of the apprenticeship system ?—(Hear.) He would ask, was not the tread-mill still continued in the West Indies?—(Hear.) If so he would say that slavery still existed there in its worst form. The Barrister, therefore, had better not put such a question, because it would recoil upon himself, and it o n l y s h owe d t h at t h ose w h o lived in glass-houses snould not throw stones.—(Hear, hear.) He was happy, however, t o say t h at t h ere were a f ew honour ableexceptions to the general system of cruelty, op pression, and slavery that now prevailed in the West Indies, and he mentioned with delight the name of the Marquis of Sligo.—(Loud cheers.) He regretted that other slave proprietors had not followed the noble example of the Marquis of Sligo. He would mention also another individual, a connexion of his own, who, at a great expense and the risk of his health, had visited the \Vest Indies three several times, to enable him, as far as in him lay, to ame liorate the condition of the slaves ; and he was gratified to add that that noble-minded individual had also abolished the apprenticeship system, and set all his slaves at perfect liberty.—(Much cheering.) He would not trespass longer upon their time—he had come there for the purpose of advocating the cause of civil and religious liberty—the cause of mercy, humanity, and of God.—(Cheers.) He was persuaded that there was not one in that immense as semblage who did not deeply sympathise with them in the great cause in which they were embarked. Much had been said of exaggeration on their side of the question, but when the truth came out he believed it would be found that the brutality and cruelty practiced under the apprenticeshiy pystem was in many cases greater than it had been during the existence of the slave system itself.—(Hear, hear.) What was it he would ask which gave to human life its best privileges, but civil and religious liberty ? What was it which conferred upon the flower of existence its greatest beauty, and its best perfume, hut civil and religious liberty ? —(Cheers.) Deprive him of that, and they renderedhim but a weed which was liable to be cut down and trodden under foot. He would refer them to the statements contained in the narrative of James Williams, and there was not a Christian man who read it who would not hold up his hand against the system of injustice, oppression, and cruelty which had been pursued towards him, and the other unfortunate negroes. So long as he had a voice to speak,and a heart to beat, hehoped that voice would be hilted up and that heart would beat responsive to the reso utions which would be proposed and seconded in the course of that evening.—(Hear.) He trusted the pro ceedings of that meeting wouldfind an echo in every part of the kingdom, and that they would be wafted across the Atlantic like his Hon. Friend on his right (Mr. Sturge), and produce a proper effect in that quarter ; that their effect would not only be felt there but in the Southern States of North America, and make the slave-owners there know that every lover of civil and religious liberty was the friend of the poor and oppressed negro ; and that they would not cease their exertions until they had effected the full and unqualified emancipation of that unhappy race.—(Vehe ment cheering.) JOSEPH STURGE, Esq. here came forward and was re ceived with enthusiastic cheering. He said I need not dwell upon the reasons which call for our renewed exertion, as those which induced us a few months ago, in this hall, so unanimously to resolve upon endeavouring to secure the freedom of our negro fellow-subjects apply with increased force at the present moment.—( Hear, hear.) It may, however, be fairly asked, what are your hopes of success, after so recent a defeat ? In the first place, I would re ply, that so far from considering the late decision in the House of Commons, upon the question, as a defeat, we view it as a great moral triumph. For not only were we opposed by the West India interests—the leaders of the Conservative party—and the whole weight and influence of the Government ; but I am sorry to say, we were deserted by a large portion of those on whom we most confidently rested our expectations of success—l mean the Irish and Scotch Members.—(Hear.) The debate was also abruptly closed at the end of one of the most able speeches ever made in that House in favour of the slave-holders. We complain, likewise, that Sir G. Strickland's motion for the abolition of the apprenticeship on the Ist of August next was not met by a direct negative on the part ofthe Go vernment ; but, by an amendment, that a Bill which had passed the House of Lords a second time should be read a second time, which Bill passed that House without op position, on the distinct understanding that it was not to interfere with Lord Brougham's Bill, having the same ob ject as Sir George Strickland's motion. Yet, under all these disadvantageous circumstances, 217 Members, of all political parties, voted for the freedom of the negro.— (Loud cheers.) There is no circumstance I regret more than the defection of so many Irish and Scotch Mem bers, for hitherto we have been supported by a large majo rity of them, and we always depended upon a large majority of them in favour of immediate emancipation, until the late occasion, when 29 Irish Members voted for the Negro freedom, 41 against it, and 35 were absent. Of the Scotch 10 voted for, and 26 against it. Some time before this discussion took place, a gentleman as compe tent to give an :,pinion on the point as any man in the united kingdom, told me he thought we should have 80 Irish Members voting in our favour. Now, had this been the case, and supposing the whole of the remaining 25 had voted against us, yet we would still have been in a majority of 13.—( Hear, hear.) It is now clearly understood that the deputation of many of the Irish and Scotch, and some of the English M. P.'s, arose from a fear that Ministers would resign if they were left in a minority on this ques tion ; but I would tell the constituents of these gentle men that those who would desert the banner of freedom for the sake of a political party, when it is hoisted in favour of the negro, will desert it when it is unfurled to protect Englishmen, Scotchmen, or Irishmen, if their freedom interfere between them and their interest to do so.—(Applause.) But what a picture did a Ministry calling itself liberal exhibit at the late de bate, if the report be true, that they would resign office rather than grant liberty to the negro, in compliance with the nation's prayer, though that nation had paid twenty millions for their deliverance ?—And it is now admitted by the Government itself, that the slave-owners have violated the conditions upon which this sum was granted. I con fess, as one of those who were honestly inclined to support the present Ministers, I could have wept over the disgrace they have brought upon my country.—(Cheers.) Sir G. Grey, who spoke a t g reat len gth , and whose peculiar duty it was, as Colonial S ecretary , to shield the unfortunate, oi'p'jpurreesdsorsslavae; appeared as m uc h th e a d vocate of their though lie had been retained for the purpose--(Shame , shame)--and some of his statements were inconsistent if not at direct variance with those of his superiors in office. Lord Glenelg, when he introduced his Bill in the House of Lords--I was sitting behind the Bar at the time—when he had addressed the House for about an hour and a half, one of the Members friendly to our cause came and said to me, " I congratulate you on Sir G. Grey's speech." Another said, " Lord G. has lost his moral po wer."— ( Che e r s.) Lord Howick, who resigned office in 1833, rather than be a party to the atrocious scheme, now came forward i n support of it, though he admitted the evils he h a d contemp l ated had resulted from all it, and Lord John Russell defended th e l ega l c l a i m o f in man, and depr eca t e d any attent i on b e i ng the property paid to the vo ice of the cou n t ry on this subject. Finally, , sp to eec hear— on w h ose votes that , which 100 t o 130 o f our Legislators William Gladstone m the House was p ressed to a division, under the influence of night depende d all that was due t o upwards of half a mil mion of hum an bein g s, thou g h th ey absented themselves while the frie nds of the ne g ro w ere speaking—this Wil c e ' in ham Gladstone , the Member of Parl iament for Newark,sat a s a Judge on the Committee before whom I was examined last year, though his famil • have had awarded to them up wards of 100,000/. from a generous but deluded people, and now he comes forward as the avowed advocate of the slave holders. His false statements, and his appeals to the prin ciples of e t er nal justice against any infringem en t o f his human property, for which you have paid the ransom, were received with cheers from all parts of the House.—(Ex pressions of indignation.) I hold in my hand a li s t of sums a warded to different individuals receiving upwards of 3,000/., which will give some idea of how far it has gone to the relief of distress, though this amount does not enable u , to get at the largest receivers—l mean the mortgagees. We have, however, the following results from the Parlia mentary Papers : SUMMARY. 303 From 3,0001. to 5,0001. 250 From 5,0001. to 1,000/. 87 From 1,000/. to 1,500/. 44 From 1,500/. to 20,0001. 35 From 20,000/. to 30,0001. 12 From 30,0001. to 40,000/. 8 From 40,0001. to 50,000/. 4 From 50,000/. to 60,000/. 1 From 60,000/. to 70,000/. 1 From 70,0001. to 80,000/. 2 From 80,000/. to 100,000/. 3 Above 100,000/. 20 Awards to individuals of rank or public ---- station under 3,000/. 780 These sums came out of the hard earnings of the British public. John Gladstone's family is one of the three who have received upwards of 100,000/. ; and while his son opposes us in the House of Commons, he has succeeded In getting a law passed to renew slavery for five years in Demerara, and is, I believe, at the present moment em ploying Part of the money you have given him in a new slave trade from the East Indies,while the slaves for whom you have paid the ransom are still in bondage on his estates. Under such circumstances as I have described the division in the House of Commons took place, at a time when three or four able advocates were ready to speak on be half of th e negro . O n a ca l m exam ination of the question, we think, if it s f r i en d s exer t th emse lves, our hopes of suc cess on Si r E ar dl ey Wil mot ' s mo ti on are well founded. However I poli tical qu es ti ons, i t i s b ut an act o f j us ti c e to him to may differ from those gentlemen 'on some e state, that there is not a warmer friend to the cause in the House of C ommons , a nd that nothing but absolute inability from sickness would have presented him from bringing forward the motion which Sir G. Strickland kindly undertook for him. I am glad to say he is so far recovered, that he feels confident he shall now be able to move the immediate and total abolition of the apprentice ship which stands for the Bth of next month. Mr. Sturge here read the following extract : " I trust, however, nothing will prevent me moving , - the re • solutions of which I have given notice for the Bth of May ; and you and your friends may be assured, I will with zeal and perseverance assist the holy cause in which we are engaged. " Believe me, dear Sir, 6' Your's ever sincerely, " J. EARDLEY WILMOT." We are not without hopes that some of those who voted against us will next time vote in our favour, or not vote at all ; and we are rather sanguine, that of the 170 Members of Parliament who were absent on the last division, a considerable majority will, on the coming occa sion, vote in favour of freedom. The minority on Sir G. Strickland's motion, be it recollected, was only 54 ; and though our hopes of success must, under Providence, de pend upon our having " a long pull, a strong pun, and a pull altogether," yet I think I have said enough to flaow our position is an encouraging one. We derive en couragement also from the fact that the information by every packet from the West Indies strengthens our cause. The resolution states there can be no executive principle in a law for the protection of the slave against his master. This must always be the case, and I believe I should not be speaking too strongly, if I say that it would be as easy to make water flow up hill as to protect a man from oppression, who could not choose his own master. I will illustrate this by one or two facts :—A humane sti pendiary magistrate informed me that he found it the most beneficial to the negro not to enforce the law against the master. Most of our friends, I believe, know that the re sult of an official investigation into James Williams's narra tive not only confirmed its truth but brought far greater horrors to light. Now if any one was likely to be protected for doing their duty it would, you will say, have been the negroes, who came forward as witnesses on such a public exa mination, ordered by the Government. How far this was the case you will judge by the extracts from the following letters : Extract of a letter from John Clark, Brown's Town : " Dec. 19, 1837. " Senior (the former owner of James Williams) is irre claimable—exposure and disgrace appear only to make him wore and excite his vindictive passions. Because of the evi dence which his faithful servant, William Dolling, gave, he threatens to prosecute him for perjury, and is seeking to in jure him and to make his life miserable. A few weeks ago he brought him to Mr. Tyfe, the new special Magistrate, who was obliged to dismiss the case. Senior is now complaining to the Governor respecting Mr. Fyfe. I have felt it to be my duty to recommend William Dolling to give notice of valua tion, and must by some means assist him to purchase his freedom." I informed the Colonial-office of this. They promised to write to the Governor to protect him. I told them they would not, as before the dispatch arrived Senior would have extorted from the poor man and his friends the price of his freedom to escape his cruel oppression, and that they might judge what that would be from the fact that I gave 34/. 13s. 4d. currency per annum for the remaining time of the boy Williams. I fear my opinion was correct, and may be judged by the extract of the following received by the last packet : " Jamaica, Feb. 24, 1838. " William Dolling, the man whose evidence was so clear and satisfactory, has since then purchased the remaining term of his apprenticeship ; his life, after the inquiry, became very irksome, and he was therefore glad to get out of the power of his master, Mr. Senior. Several attempts were made to get him to contradict the evidence which he gave before the Com missioners, and as he firmly objected to do anything of the sort he was subject to considerable annoyance. This I had from himself. Ile mentioned to me that Senior is going on in his old way, and that the provision grounds of several of the Penshurst apprentices have been lately destroyed by him during the temporary absence of Mr. Fyfe, the Special Magistrate." I will only read one other case of the kind, to show the consequences of seeing justice done, received also by the last packet : _ " J. M. PHILLIPPO, FEB. 28, 1838.-NO. 5, " The details of the case which I hope to procure and for ward you by this conveyance, are harrowing in the extreme. I saw the poor creature ! She was literally covered with scars from head to foot. Never before did I see a human being so dreadfully mangled. Surely, surely, unless an end is speedily put to these abominations worse evils will befall us than those which befel Egypt when her proud tyrant endeavoured to bring Israel back to slavery." 51Aacti 14--The following is the case alluded to above : " The case of Mally alias Eliza Francis, is briefly as fol lows :—Some time about Easter, 1837, she was beat by her master ( Mr. Newell) ; she complained to Mr. M'Leod ; he fined the man, and sent him to gaol for non-payment. After he got out, he then, under pretence of some insolence given to his housekeeper, had Mally tied up to an orange -tree, stripped and flogged. The overseer then got salt, pepper, and lime juice, mixed it together, and rubbed her with it. He then ex posed her for some time, and afterwards chained her to a post in his house with a cow-chain, so as to prevent her getting away to complain. She states that she was with child at this time, and subsequently lost it. That being recovered from her punishment, she did not complain, as she was shortly to leave him for Tyrrell, probably an overseer. That the week before Christmas Tyrrell ordered his driver to flog her in the field. His orders were obeyed, and she was flogged a second time." But what says Lord Glenelg himself, in a dispatch to Lord Sligo : " I, therefore, think it more wise to acquiesce silently in the inconvenience which the refusal of the half-Friday in every week may occasion, than to enter into a contest for the redress of the evil, with a distinct conviction, that though there is no prospect of success, there is a high probability of widening the breach, which it is my duty, as far as possible, to close." Yet the slaves are to he mocked, and the people of Eng land insulted, by another Apprenticeship Bill. I will, before I sit down, read a letter from an individual whom I had met with when in Jamaica, who had raised 209/. wishing to buy out his apprenticeship, who told me that the negroes were willing to subscribe to pay his expenses to England to plead their cause for them. To a friend of mine, who forwarded the letter to me by the last packet, he writes as follows : " Deliverance, Feb. 10, 1838. " Most Respected and Rev. Sir,—l have just received from Mr. Sturge two copies of the Patriot newspaper, which con tain some very interesting speeches of the abolitionists and Anti- Slavery Society, at a meeting which was held at Exeter Flail last November. " When Mr. Sturge was here last year, I hinted to him that the apprentices of this district were very willing to sub scribe money to enable me to go off to England to represent their case, and entreat their British friends to break off the whole of the apprenticeship system on the termination of August, 1838, which he then thought would be of essential service to the cause. _ _ " Now, by seeing our determination, and the strong resolu tions which the British friends are making. it strikes me very forcibly, that by the aid of our gracious God my testimony will be of some help to the parties in England; and I really believe that that is the reason Mr. Sturge has sent me those papers. " But the subject is a very difficult one, it requires much caution, particularly in a country like this, where it is a case just similar to those in Acts C. 16 19v.—C. 19 26 v., where men have been living so long upon the sweat of their fellow-creatures which they call their property. " However, I am not afraid to broach the subject, if it is not against the laws of the country, for I feel for my poor brethren who arc still in bonds, having been not long since myself in bondage. 1 have experienced the horrors of it; therefore I sympathize with them, and am willing in a legal manner to do all that is in my power to facilitate the removal of their yoke ; only I wish to keep within bounds of the laws of my country. " I do really believe that it is Mr. Sturga's wish that I should come to England, though he does not write. " I now entreat you as a friend of the negroes to consult Mr. Harvey ' • he being a lawyer, will be able to give me some instruction whether it is right that I should put the subject in question in execution. " If others of her Majesty's subjects can send delegates to England to explain their grievances, I do not see why the poor apprentices ought not to enjoy the same privilege. " I beg you will keep this quite quiet, only write me your opinion. " To J. M. Phillippo, Spanish Town, Jamaica." Now, if he does arrive, it shall not be my fault if he is not examined at the bar of the House of Lords and Commons, and as I am anxious to make way for the much more able speakers who are to follow me, but as at the last meeting held here on this sub ject you unanimously passed a resolution expressive of your confidence in the accuracy and impartiality of my statements, it may be right for one moment to recur to the various attacks that have been made upon me. They have been mostly confined to those whose praise I should think more a disgrace than their censure. Some attacks have been made upon me in rather high quarters ; but did time permit I might show the ridiculous contradictions some of them have involved themselves in. One of the most viru lent has been from the pen of Mr. A. Hankey, a liberal supporter of the London Missionary Society, and though Lord Sligo's noble example, I understand, has induced him to resolve to liberate his negroes on the I et of August, an extraordinary advertisement in the last " Eclectic Review" makes me think truth and liberty will be served by my publishing some notice of it. I would only say that all my statements that have been investigated have been con firmed almost literally, and that to an extent that I could not have expected ; and all I ask is, that if there is any doubt upon the mind of any of the friends to the cause on this head, I should be particularly obliged by their affording me an opportunity to remove them. I hope I shall be excused this digression, and will conclude by reminding you that the question be fore us is whether the foul plague spot of slavery still con tinue to tarnish your national escutcheon after the worthy sacrifice you have made to obliterate it for ever. The coronation of your youthful Sovereign is to take place within a few weeks from the present time. If her counte nance is a transcript of her feelings she is not callous to the sufferings of her sex, and if the miseries of the negro mother, under this accursed sysecin could be but faint 1 3 s pictured to her view, I feel persuaded her heart would beat in unison with yours. But, unhappkv, the truth seldom reaches the royal ear, and her respot tsible advisers have determinec in defiance of her people's prayer, that she shall be crowned a Queen of slaves. We have resolved again to try the issue with them, on the result of -vhich depends not only the freedom of more t han half a million of British slaves, but a tremendous m0r.....! influence wllich ' may be felt throughout the world in ages yet to cmrre. We ask your support, your sympathy, your prayers. i'f the Ministers of the Crown again resist .our claim for negro freedom. I appeal to this vast assembly comprising. I be lieve all shades of religious and political opinion. I say I ask you ought such advisers any longer to wield the des tinies of this great nation ? I reptsat the query, if they re sist again our claim for mercy, are such iD , !11 fit to govern a free people? \Veil, Birmingham has e'er this, given the key-note to a choru s in favour of liberty, wt. jell has reached the senate and the throne, and I know you will Dot be hackwork to come to help them. On the pr:ssent, ct:easion I rejoice in the conviction that you will toue:l a. cord that will vibrate in the breast of thousands and tens of thousands of your countrymen and countrywomen. V vMay He by whom " Kings reign and Princes decree justice," who has the hearts of all at his disposal, and whose love- liest attribute is mercy, yet grant, that e'er the diadem descends upon your monarch's brow, the fiat may be gis ea that the sun shall rice no more upon a single slave of any colour, or of any clime, in her extended empire. The Rev. ANGELL JAMES then came forward and said, before he read the resolution that had been entrusted to his care, he begged most sincerely to congratulate the chairman upon the honour which perhaps had never yet fallen to any of his predecessors ; he was convinced ire had sufficient intelligence to appreciate it ; lie meant the honour he had conferred upon him in twice presiding over town meetings, during his official year, for the purpose .of raising from degradation, to rescue from oppression, and redeem from slavery, nearly one million of fellow-subjects. —(Hear.) And he would express his hope that the honour would die with the chairman. When they last met, they marshalled all their forces, arsa prepared their artillery to attack one of the most gigantic roes they had ever to encounter. He alluded to negro slavery.—(Hear, hear.) They had made an attack, and in one respect, he would admit they had been shamefully (not shamefully to themselves, but to those who were the cause of their disgraceful defeat) defeated, but he had little feaxs for their future success. They were there to make another assault and break the yoke of the, oppressor, and set free the captive. It bad been in the mind of some, and had been uttered by many, that they were giving themselves a great deal of trouble, and that they were giving the public a great deal of trouble, about merely cutting off two years slavery from the negro. • Why, to show them that absolute wisdom did not always reside even in Municipal Corpora !ions, he would tell them what a gentleman had said to him :hat day. The gentleman was one of that portion of the community, which was to take part in a corporation which should be nameless ; and in the conversation which had taken place, the gentleman he alluded to said—why should money be taken from the oublic funds to defray the ex pence of petitioning against slavery ? Why should mo ney be spent upon such trumpery purposes ? He merely mentioned this circumstance to show the feeling which existed in the mind of some persons upon the subject of slavery. It was very well fer men who walked about in the unfettered enjoyment of civil liberty, who never saw the treadmill except in a picture—who knew nothing of the iron collar only what they read of it in the Newspapers or in the reports of speeches—it was very well for such men to talk of only two years' apprenticeship. He was ashamed to hear such language from the lips of Britons— from the lips of Englishmen, and professors of Christianity. Was it thus they measured the blessings of liberty ? Did they set no more value or importan.Pe upon the prin ciple of liberty, than that which would enable them to say, two years of cruelty such as the Pejo was subject to was a matter of no importance. He thought differently ....4Cheers)—and he would tell them why. _He thought they ought to be there that. night, for the purpest' of show ing their hostility to anything in the shape and _form of slavery and unjust oppression. He thought they o u e eht to be there, to smite off the fetters from the slave, who was their fellow-subject. They owed it to themselves that it ey should battle this matter Ishii ,the slave-owners, with the planters, and with her Majesty's Government, if it must be. They had paid twenty millions for the emancipation of the slave, and they wer, , still in all but despair of re ceiving the value of their money. They required not. evi dence to prove that the contract, if ever there was any contract (but that he denied) batween the p . !anters and the friends of the negro, had bean violated—most wickedly :Ind shamefully broken by the planters.—(Cheers.) He himself had told her Majesty's Premier, that his owes admitted that the contract. had been broken by the planters, and that the only remuneration her Majesty's Government could make for this filgrant violation of the right of the negro. was instantly to remove his chains, and not suffer him to re...- main in bondage even two years. He was ashamed tos hear in reply to this, what was said not only by her Ma jesty's Ministers, but also by those who called themselves the representatives of the people—one of those men who opposed the emancipation of the slave, when he (Mr. James) had expostulated with him, and raferred him to the documents in his possession in proof of their suit. 'rings. replied, " Why, Sir, do you think we can read the deN . ilish heap of stuff they send us upon this subject."—(Sham. "•) Here was a man who actually refused to read informatio. l upon a subject upon which he was bound to legislate. They owed it to themselves to put an end to the hor rible system of slavery, and they must do so with firmness end determination. They ought to have known. when they paid their twenty millions, that they were dealing with men who could cheat them. They ought to have• taken more care, end made sure that they bad the goods delivered before they paid their money. Honesty was unsuspecting, and the people ought not to have been placed under the necessity of dealing with men who heti a direct interest in defrauding them. He thought they to prosecute the object of that meeting for another reason—and that reason was, that it was indispensably necessary that they should express to her Majesty's Ministers the deep sense of disappointment and indignation which the nation felt at the manner in which they had been treated by the Government in reference to the negro. The instant the Emancipation Act was passed„ these men ought to have at once considered themselves called upon by God and their duty to the nation, to take the negro under their especial care, and see that the Ant of Emancipation ought to be carried into full operation.— (Cheers.) Her Majesty's Government ought to have felt, and it was his anxiety to make them feel, that the hapless victims of oppression ought to be rescued from their misery. He had been exceedingly unwilling to hear much said against the present Government. He was willing to hear all the good he could of them ; but he confessed that the speeches he had lately heard, particularly the marvellous speech of the head of the House of Bedford, had done much to open his eyes.—(Cheers.) His Lordship would seem to be growing very fastidious about the pressure from without.—(Hear, hear.) They all recollected the time his Lordship was not so sensitive upon that point. When this clamour proceeded from another cause, when it raised him into office and retained him in it, then there was no objection raised against the clamour from without. The shouts of Newhall-hill were not so disagree able to him—(Cheers)—as the little clamour that had lately been raised in the. House of Commons in behalf of the unfortunate negro. He confessed he was very anxious once more to protest against the view taken of the question by her Majesty's Ministers ; and, if there was no other object, that alone would induce him to say the present meeting ought to be hold. He did not know that, in the history of all the struggles that had ever yet been made for freedom in England, there was anything so grand as the position of their country at the present inoment.—( Hear, hear.) What was it that moved their country from one extremity to the other—that was exciting the Legislature, and combining all parties in the Empire on one great question ? It was not an effort to in duce the nations of Europe to put an end to the ac cursed and accursing Slave-trade—it was not a scheme to put an end to that traffic in their own country, for it was already done—it was not an effort for the abolition of slavery here, but merely, and he said merely, in the opinion of those to whom he alluded—it was merely to claim from the Government the abolition of two years of what they would call mitigated slavery.—(Hear, hear.) A finer tes timony of abhorrence against slavery, or to the value of liberty, never yet was borne from civilized man, for they stood there that night not only before God and their country, but before the whole civilized world, to express their sympathy on behalf of insulted humanity, and on be half of the incalculable value of liberty.--(Loud cheers.) Even should the efforts they were now making prove un successful in the end, it would be felt across the Atlantic it would be felt in the slave-holding States of that slave loving country ; and even that liberty-boasting body, the Congress of America, would feel something of the power of their example.—(Loud Cheers.) Yes, that very people who committed the suicidal act of sacrificing their own liberty rather than they would abolish the slavery of their negro fellow-subjects, would no made to feel, that they could not with impunity oppose the claims of I justice and humanity, without being made to feel the influ ence of the struggle that was now going on in behalf of that oppressed race, the negroes. They were speaking for the world—they were acting for the world ; and even, if de feated in the o bject they had in view for the abolition of the remainin g portion of apprenticeship, they wou ld mee t again, and ask for even one year's freedom from shivery, and thus testify their love of liberty, and how high they held the blessings of humanity.—(Loud cheers.) He called upon them to strike one blow more for the slave, and if the Euiavi THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1838.